Can you find me one place where Frank has ever said such a thing? Do you understand anything Frank is saying? These are the questions, here.
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The Form of God
- Thread starter SalixIncendium
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No idea how you got that from anything I said.
Because that's not the point. The point is to throw random attack questions in order to avoid answering any, silly.
Desert Snake
Veteran Member
It's relevant because Catholicism holds certain definition traditionally for what a "Christian", is, and therefore if you are arguing from that perspective, it affects your given definitions for "Christian".
I have no idea why you wouldn't answer that question,
// now, regarding the example I gave, that is accepted Biblical study information, and the only reason you can't accept it, seems to be that you don't understand that Christianity is Judaic. Which is odd, since that is the clear inference from Scripture.
Desert Snake
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I answered the thread question, here.
Neither you, nor st. Frankenstein has answered the thread question. Which is the main question, here.
Akivah
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Not only that, Judaism has many more differences to Christianity, other than the identity of the future messiah.
I see God as having both form and being formless. God takes a human-like form and partakes in many pastimes for the purpose of helping his devotees fixate on him more easily than they could if he were only formless.
Me too, me too! This is how I'd answer the o.p.
Akivah
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Nor Judaism.
Akivah
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Well, I don't think that jesus ever actually existed. He's just a fictional character. The Christian stories portray the fictional jesus as being ignorant of basic Judaism laws. So I wouldn't think he was part of any Jewish denomination, even assuming that he existed.
That is totally irrelevant.
Christianity came from Judaism, yes. But obviously Christianity and Judaism are two different religions. I'm not sure why you're stretching things so much.
Desert Snake
Veteran Member
Why don't you answer the thread question?
Why don't you buzz off and stop trolling me.
Desert Snake
Veteran Member
No, Christianity came from a Hebraic paradigm using some of the same texts as 'Judaism', Rabbinical Judaism. That is why, for example, Essenes were many of the early "Christians".
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Ponder This
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Inspired by a couple of threads that mention anthropomorphism, I'm curious how members here view their God. It would appear in this painting by Michelangelo, likely the most popular and recognizable depiction of God, that many anthropomorphize God.
What form does God take in your belief structure?
If you anthropomorphize your God(s), what is the purpose of doing so?
I think the painting gives us at least one reason: to convey meaning. If the lens of human perception is to see things as human, then that becomes the media for the transfer of ideas.
74x12
Well-Known Member
So we're made in the image of God as in what He would appear as if He did appear. I agree with this.
Ein Sof is beyond even God which is why I have a problem with the concept. God says there is none else. (Isaiah 45:5) And why does God say that before me there was no God formed? (Isaiah 43:10)
Hypothetically what is to stop someone going around God; directly to Ein Sof if they don't want to obey the commandments of God?
I understand your point. But, I'm asking what that really means. So, you peel away the onion; until you have nothing left. Then you see nothing and you say surely God does not exist or else God cannot be known. Yet something was there at first ... and it's not the onion's fault it is now gone.
Tumah
Veteran Member
No. And you're not doing yourself any favors by showing everyone how you have difficulty understanding when metaphor is being used in a verse.
I am not allowed to - and would not regardless - give you a lesson in kabbalah. Ein Sof is not G-d, is not greater than or equal to G-d and not created before G-d. Whatever ideas you had are wrong.
